Show I II I I t r American Explorer Induces the Blood Blood- thirst Solomon Island Cannibals to i f Repeat Before the theO Magic O Eyes One of ofa a Mix N Their Gruesome Hunts for the Skulls r J a 4 1 I Ii n f 41 Yr li k x f e di t tf 4 w H Hj Hf j f Y a d aa ac act t tk m a t y saY 1 r s i i d Fa 5 q g ki 4 r 5 Y w e t V t Fi M Mr 3 r v a tit t b r s t it N y t Y t dh ab I r v t A Ord pl 6 yf p aN r i iF rbt J I II 4 1 a 8 F I II a f fa fx t t w wi wy i y S Y 4 d ya y ark t i ir r r A I II I r Fi wry f a r f r a k J M f ue abr ti A Y y i l AF f 1 ky a t t ti r r Q yR f f N rn o oP P wY t t tI l w y LF d dS dl S T N I Lc at 4 ifs rd d p Lie 5 e 4 3 if 1 I II n w p r t I 0 I I II 6 rw y t o t 1 r N tt v c tai taiA A b beauty of the South Seas who hunts hunt not hearts heart not heads EDWARD A SALIS SALIS- SALISBURY CAPTAIN BURY etui ninE from a lengthy i cruise around the globe in his yacht acht Wisdom II 11 brings moro more complete and authentic information than the cn civilized world orld has ever had con con- concerning concerning con concerning the savage inhabitants of the Solomon Islands and their bloodthirsty fondness for cutting off on the h heads hads ads of their enemies and eating the rest of tl- tl them m As Captain Salisbury found out out the Solomon Islanders do not hunt heads and eat cat the bodies of their victims because they e cra the taste tast of human flesh They do these things Captain Sah Salis- Salis Salisbury Salis Salisbury 1 bury c explains because of their desiro I for mama mana a mysterious spirit of power v t hick fills both the a animate and inanimate mate male world orId in a thousand different forms It is this power po rather than a aman's aman's amans aman's mans man's 0 own n intelligence and strength that makes him a great chief or famous t lS warrior E o From rom iris IllS his primitive primitiva cradle the Solomon Solomoni Islander is brought up in the firm belief i that the more hearts heads he takes the th greater his may maWl During his stay tay in the Solomons Captain Cap Cap- Cap Captain tain tam Salisbury visited sited the island of Vella and made mado the acquaintance of Its ruler Gau Captain Ca Salisbury got into the tho rulers ruler's good graces by presenting him witha with Ith II a knife and hatchet Then he undertook to persuade Gau to stage one of his fa- fa famous famous fa 1 head hunts before the battery of cameras which had been ben brought along on board the th WI Wisdom dom IL II The Tho savage chief understood well ell enough the captains captain's wish to see seo a head Lunt but the th cameras stumped him lie He lier r could not comprehend what hat they were ere or why it should be necessary for him lIm and his tribesmen to RO go through their war warlike warlike warlike like maneuvers maneu before beCore them Finally Captain Sah Salisbury bury hit lIt upon the happy idea of describing the cam cam- cameras cam cameras eras as magic eyes eyes-eyes cie eyes which could see oser oer o cr and ever vcr again anything they had once beheld and which would carry t to lands far across the seas tho fame tame of Gou Gau and his fighting men This argument appealing both to the tho thew thoI w savages savage's savage superstitious nature and to his pride removed remo his IlS every doubt concerning concerning concern concern- Ing the mysterious cameras lie Ile readily agreed ld to stage tare a u lead head hunt before tho magic m ees eyes and as a result Captain Sah Salisbury lury was as able aLle to secure hundreds of photographs and thousands of feet of picture picture motion film j lit I H di M y nis Y a Y Gau at once began to assem assem- assemble assemble ble his his al warriors riOTS from all pal patty of tho island Also from places paces far back in the jungla he uncovered a II number of the war canoes which he had hidden from the tho British when they came cam swooping s down on Villa La- La veils veUa to punish him lum for his last held hunt and put a stop to any more mor such uch butchery The head hunt was as Ad a ato to be conducted J lust juit as a rea real one s would have o been except a that there was as asto g to be no cut- cut cutting f 3 ting tine ofT off of I rY h heads e ads nor e tr feasting on fc human flesh ss D But Dut ut there t would v have havet li a v o f been much actual actual ac- ac actual bloodshed for for Cor the magic macic eyes to I ia- ia cord ic-cord e- e ecord r cord it if Cap Cap- Capr Capi Captain r i tam tain Salisbury 3 Y had not taken f f fl ft f jt l the t li Ii c a precaution precaution precaution 1 mo r tion to re remo re- re k a mo e the barbs fro from m th thy the spears of th the tho t 1 warrIors yX W When hen the w fighting scent scenes were II ire ere s staged singed aged N the they so 50 excited realism with ot ol AA f fr the r t r I the acting that t if s I J fI t ar they the h o y v would Quid S Staken s surely have haved f 1 lI d j gI gIt It t taken the lives i of many of 1 F actor fallow t V actors had i jf they had I F Ft t their usual t l weapons tj i i fM The prep prep- preparations 1 1 I r for forthe fort the t h ho o ten tenmile ten ten- mile nule canoe cano journey and the attack on one of Gaus Gau's own vi 1 ages wore were an exalt t imitation of his fa famous moos mOlls raid on Choiseul Is Islani an a n p d when w hen he brought home over two hundred heads 0 J aft z v W Sy aw he cannibal warriors warrior on their they return from ro on of their head h hunting ti g expeditions bearing y t sw j t fit W a Jt I 1 R Rin in in triumph along alon the beach the skulls of their victims ns The flesh has hIlS been burned S rt 3 from hem the skulls and the warriors will wi l treasure the ghastly trophies forever in in r t w the belief that they will make them braver and protect them from harm barm r lt sr I li t I I Most Host of the warriors earned carried carved wooden spears eight feet long lone The points of these spears which had to bo be ed tel removed were in most cases fashioned of human shin bones Other fighters were armed with stone stono ston clubs having haTing han ban bandies handles han handles dies inlaid with vear pearl shells The warriors warrior faces and the upper part of their a- a al- al Solomon leland Island most n II a k ked a d priest dl forb foro for bod b o d i i e s were a ceremonial streaked with ada a II da dance paint made mado of whito lime so that they could recognize one another another an- an another other easily in m inthe the heat of battle or in the dark 4 Although the ce women and chil- chil chil 11 f dren in m thell the II ll a y n lage lace that was as attacked at- at s 41 tacked had been 1 told that it was as t all pia play they were thrown into to y r the wildest ter ter- ter terror C ter at sight tight of g ir the approaching o r canoes filled with with tiling elling warriors Themen The Themen Th v vv men of the village v ho however hoever ever pro proved cd good actors and staged a w spirited resistance to to Gau Gaui m men en un until finally overcome by force of numbers When the mimic attack was over the warriors paddled slowly Iy home alternating alternating ing mg somber chants for their dead with loyos JO os songs of victory They carried In the canoes a number of or real skulls the trophies of former which Gau had brought do down don n from his royal ro al skull house in m the mountains to lend reality to the tho spectacle These skulls were ere earned carried ashore wIth great ceremony and each was as held aloft by a warrior as he bore boro it up and down the s lin-s ms of admiring women w omen A great treat fire tI was as built on the beach and around this the men danced and sang their strange songs sons songs In similar fires only a few years ears ago the flesh was burned from the heads which an epe c expedition pc- pc had yielded Later the skulls were ere suspended m in cocoanut leaf baskets from the tops tops of foot four foot poles and around these there were moro more mor wild dances While Whilo all this was as going on Gau Gan greatest of head hunters stood tood strange strange- strangely strangely strangely ly silent leaning on his long spear at distance from the dancers Perhaps Per Per- Perhaps Per Perhaps haps his lIS savage sou soul vas v as sighing for a return of the days when head hunts were II a grim reality and his hands were ere con con- continually continually con continually driPPing human blood But those days are arc probably gone for for for- forever for er ever eer Although individual head hend hunting IS still a fa favorite sport in the th Solomon Islands the British government Is de- de determined de determined that tl-at the practice shall newer ne be resumed on the old time wholesale scale fr r y x 9 f d t L x w i A Solomon I Islander who I Ican can recall ilia days when his bis tribe i Ks Ksir ir 5 A would often return from froma fy r 0 a raid on a i d dv v neighboring island with hundreds or oI oIa human heads a o a 1 ls l's r R tx f r N w wre re aa y tJ t a ai 11 i n r The savages armed with shields long spears pears and stone hatchets 4 rw 1 r i t J about to set out in their elaborately decorated war canoes canoe on ona i fl 1 ft S y fJ head hunting expedition jt t i l k- k ku a H i it t u I c h t Ms M r y 4 It l t f S or il f l lJ lv ly v x r A J i 1 y r s l r YS r f I t I r r Yi a Y t w kd P PJ a l u Nv J 1 rr t Y i iX X l ra f x 1 M J i l |